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Worthless Salt Hard Sayings of Jesus Series - FOJC on TruthRadioShow
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Just Just Good evening, everybody.
We are live, live, live on the FOJC Radio Doctrine of Christ channel.
Welcome to another episode of the Hard Sayings of Jesus with myself and Brian Reese, and a big hello to everybody in the chat.
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But really glad for everybody that's joining us for the broadcast tonight.
And Brian, thank you so much for being here like you're always here, man, just putting out the Word of God.
Yeah, it's a blessing, David, and I'm glad to be part of the Hard Sands of Jesus series.
This has been a really interesting series, and I'm glad to be part of it here on the Doctrine and Christ channel, FOJC Radio.
And what a blessing it is, David.
Let's ride this one out.
Worthless Salt Program.
That's what the title is tonight.
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Yeah.
And we are, because whether you know it or not, the doctrine of Christ is the most important thing in your life.
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Jesus doesn't change, and neither do we.
That's right.
We're going to begin.
The hard saying of Jesus tonight is worthless salt, from Matthew chapter 5 and verse 13.
Ye are the salt of the earth, But if the salt have lost his sabre, wherewith shall it be salted?
It is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
And I want to read the commentary from William Perkins, who was the father of Puritanism, and I want to read his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount.
His comments here are so going to be such a blessing for us.
But Mr. Perkins, he said, But this title of salt here given unto them, Christ would teach them first how they ought to dispense the word of God, both law and gospel.
Both law and gospel.
Boy, we need to hear that, don't we?
Namely, so as they labor therein to express the properties of salt, Where to, Christ alludes in this title.
Now, the properties of salt applied to raw flesh or flesh wounds are principally three.
Now, have you ever got salt in a wound?
That'll get your attention in a hurry, won't it?
And salt is the stinging effect of the law of God.
People, when the law of God goes forth, it will sting, and it will make people mad.
I guarantee you.
It says, first, it will bite.
Oh yeah, it'll bite, and fret, being of nature hot and dry.
Secondly, it makes meat savory to our taste.
When the sting is over, it'll make you savory, and it will make you sweet.
Thirdly, it preserves meats from putrefaction by drawing out of them superfluous moisture.
And salt does that.
It will sting, It will make it flavorful, and it will also purify it.
And this was applied by Brother Perkins to the disciples and the apostles, and even to all the ministers, and even more than that, this applies to each and every believer in Jesus Christ.
This is how we are to be.
When we lose our salt, That's what Jesus is saying here.
When we become worthless salt, we're good for nothing.
So we need to understand this worthless salt saying of Jesus, just exactly what it means, and to make sure that we have the salt of God in our life.
Now, Brother Perkins, he goes on to say, first the law must be applied to rip up man's hearts.
The preaching of the law will rip up men's hearts.
And I tell you what, when the law and the salt Sin is an open sore, and when the law of God hits that open sore, it's like putting salt in it and ripping that flesh, and it will rip our carnality, it will wake us up, and a lot of times you'll see that angry reaction, but the law has to go forward that the heart will be prepared for the gospel and for repentance.
In the Book of Romans, Let's read a couple Scriptures on that.
In the book of Romans chapter 3, Romans chapter 3 and verse 20, Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
We know what is right and wrong by God's law.
Now, that's about as popular as tuberculosis nowadays, because the law of God is denigrated in these modern assemblies.
That's why sin is rampant.
The law of God is denigrated.
Here at FOJC, we hold the law of God in high regard.
We believe that everywhere we can conform ourselves to God's holy law, That we are going to be much, much the better for us.
And this is exactly what took place on the day of Pentecost.
In, in Acts chapter two, Acts the second verse, and I want to read the thirty-seventh verse, it says, Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
And said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
They were pricked in their heart, the law and the message went forth.
And then Peter said unto them, Repent.
That is the purpose of the salt of God's law.
We have to dispense both law and gospel or we have no salt within us.
And if you look at the modern religious establishment, well, sin is the transgression of the law.
And when you throw out the law of God, each and every person, it's like in the book of Judges, it says every person did that which was right in their own eyes.
Well, I think this, I think that, no, it's God's law that determines what sin is and what right and wrong is.
And it's salty.
And we have to have that salt in ourselves or for all of the people We know when we stand and we preach against sin and we preach repentance, it will cause anger.
It will cause all kinds of reactions.
I guarantee you, I've seen it all.
But there will also be those that will say, the Holy Ghost has ripped up my heart.
What do I do?
And then we apply the gospel and we say, repent and believe in Jesus Christ, and that is the answer for the sin debt that we all have for that broken law.
David, did you say that dirty word, repent?
Yes, I did.
Yes, I did.
Is Bill Connell in here tonight?
Bill Connell is in the chat.
Bill McConnell.
Is he?
Yes, sir.
There he is, Mr. Repent.
All right, then.
Yeah, we said repent again.
We say repent in here quite a bit, and we're going to keep saying it.
Because that's the only hope that people have, is repenting and believing the gospel.
We gotta be salt, you see?
If the salt loses its savor, it's good for nothing, you see?
And if we cannot be a little bit of salt in this wounded world of sin, Nobody has got a chance.
We've got to be the salt.
And right now, you can see the church, they have thrown out the law of God, and when you throw out God's law, you throw out the salt.
And they've lost their savor, and for the most part, I mean, I try not to be just overcritical, but it's blatant.
You can't throw out God's law And have any salt in you.
That's just the way it is.
Well, David, a carnal man doesn't know the ways of God.
I mean, that's just a thought in my head.
Being a carnal-minded is a hard road when you're not leaning on the promises of God and relating back to the scriptures and literally having a repentant heart.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's exactly right.
And well, people say, well, I think this, I think that.
Well, opinions are like belly buttons, they say.
Everyone's got one.
But what saith God's law?
That's what tells us what right and wrong is.
And sin, by the laws, the knowledge of sin.
Now, Brother Perkins said this.
He said, thirdly, both the law and the gospel must be continually dispensed that thereby sin and corruption may be daily mortified and consumed both in heart and life.
So when we preach God's law, it's not just because we want to be mean or trying to put anybody down.
We're preaching God's law because it's God's law.
And sin is the transgression of the law, and we need to repent of sin.
It's a very simple proposition.
This just sounds radical to the minds of people that are in the modern American religious system.
But that is the goal of it!
Not just to try to think we're better than anybody, or that we know more than anybody, but this is the goal in 2 Corinthians, the 5th chapter, 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 20, We are ambassadors for Christ.
As though God did beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
We are ambassadors for Christ.
We know that there's a world that is separated from God by sin.
We preach what sin is.
We preach the Ten Commandments.
We preach all of God's moral law.
And after we preach the law of God and make people are ripped up in their flesh and they know they're a sinner, then we apply the balm of the gospel.
We beseech them.
You don't have to die Without Christ, He has died for this very thing, to take care of your sin problem.
And it's the Gospel!
You know, it is the Gospel, the fact, the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ for your sins, Christ died for us according to the Scriptures.
And in Romans, the first chapter, And the 16th verse, Paul said, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
For it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
We preach the salt of the law, that everyone might know that we need to apply the gospel and put our faith in Christ for that remedy of sin that each and every one of us have.
Now, Brother Perkins said here, both the Law and the Gospel must be continually dispensed.
Law and Gospel, constantly.
Constantly.
And we, over and over, here at FOJC Radio, we say that we are whole Bible believers.
We believe it all, and we stand for it all, and we stand for the doctrine of Christ as the ultimate revelation of God.
He is our example over and over.
It's the C, the D, and the E. It's the cross, the doctrine, and the example of Christ.
And in Matthew chapter 13 and verse 52, Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that is an householder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things old and new.
If we're going to be a scribe in the kingdom of heaven, and if we're going to bring people into the real kingdom, we have to be able to bring things out old and new.
We have to—you see, the old and the new, there's such a misconception that they are in conflict with one another.
Jesus was with the Father from all eternity.
Jesus said, That everything he did and said was what he saw and heard the Father do.
The Bible, and just a lesson here recently I was reading, and I'll read it again.
I'll turn to the book of Hebrews.
In the book of Hebrews chapter 1 and verse 3, Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.
That word, the express image, that means if the Father is the stamp, and you put it in the ink and then stamp it on the paper, Jesus is the express image.
Just like you take a stamp and it's an exact reproduction.
Jesus and the Father are one.
Jesus is God in the flesh, Emmanuel.
Praise his holy name.
Amen, David.
I have a question.
This is just for everybody out there, too, but this is a question for you.
Jesus was with the Father when the foundation was laid, when the earth was laid, David, and a lot of people don't know that.
Yes, sir.
And a lot of people seem to...
I guess they're getting taught different things, and they misinterpret the Bible, and they seek after what man has said more than what the Father has said.
And I just wanted to point that out, that Jesus was with the Father and the whole thing, but the angels rejoiced when the foundation was laid of the earth.
And I think that's interesting.
And Jesus was the Creator.
You know, and Jesus said before Abraham was, I am.
And that I am is referring back to Exodus 3.14 when the Lord revealed his name to Moses, I am that I am.
And let's just read a little bit in the Gospel of John, it's very clear.
And a lot of people, we know we teach this all the time on FOJC, but a lot of our new listeners, you might never have heard it.
Because there's very little sound doctrine taught in churches anymore.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.
Jesus was God, and the Word, excuse me, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Jesus and the Father were both God, and also the Holy Ghost, and in the very beginning, before anything else was created, they were together, Jesus and the Father, and the Holy Ghost.
In verse 2, The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
Jesus is the Creator.
The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost all took part in the creation of everything that we say.
So very well said, Brian.
Jesus absolutely He was here before he ever came to the earth.
He was here, he's the creator, back when the very foundations of the earth were laid.
He certainly was.
And I want to make a point, too, for everybody out there, me and David are wanting to just bring the gospel with this channel, with all channels, everything we do, we do it for the Lord.
And when we're talking about these topics, and especially in the beginning, If it wasn't for the Father and wasn't for the Son, it wasn't for the Holy Ghost, me and David would not be on this platform today, literally freely giving, you know, freely giving information that the KJV Bible, we wouldn't be here today.
And it's all but a miracle that we're able to do this.
And it's a blessing.
Amen.
That's exactly right.
And Brother Perkins goes on to say this.
I love this so much.
He said, thirdly, this title gives good direction to every minister for his manner of preaching.
For if the word of God alone be that savory salt wherewith man's heart is seasoned for the Lord, then it ought to be dispensed purely and sincerely without mixture of human inventions.
As they might say down south, Brian might have heard this old expression, we got to give it to them with the bark on.
Give it to them with the bark on.
That's right.
This was Paul's care.
My word and my preaching says he stood not in the enticing speech of man's wisdom, but in the evidence of spirit and of power.
In the epistle of 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and That's what we say.
Don't interpret the Bible.
Believe it.
Believe Jesus.
Take Him for your example, and you'll do well.
I Corinthians chapter 2, verses 4 and 5, And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom.
Now I'll just tell you right now, if you're here for fancy talk, And fancy lookers, you're in the wrong place with me and Brian.
You're in the wrong place.
You're going to get it straight.
You're not going to get no fancy talk, no, no razzle-dazzle.
You're going to get it straight.
And it says, And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of the Spirit's power.
Now, people can criticize us for the way we look, for the way we talk.
I guarantee you, people will criticize us for everything.
And that's fine, because when the gospel goes forth in power, the results come in.
People are convicted of their sin.
They rid themselves of sin and defilement.
They grow close unto the Lord.
People are born again and saved.
It's a demonstration of the Spirit's power.
And that's by giving the salt of the law, preaching the gospel, calling people to repentance?
It's not us, the power's in the gospel!
The gospel is the power of God, and when we preach the gospel and lift up Jesus Christ, we're going to see men and women saved!
And that's what the DOC channel is about!
Totally dedicated.
This lesson tonight is totally dedicated to this saying of Jesus, worthless salt.
We need to understand what worthless salt is, and we need to understand so that we will never become worthless salt.
It goes on to say, Paul says, that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
You know, it's not in the wisdom of man's But it's in the power of God and the mighty convicting power of the Holy Ghost.
In 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 2, Paul said this, well Paul writing under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost in 2 Corinthians, he said, But we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.
And thank God, I have renounced dispensationalism, I've renounced preterism, I have renounced these man-made ways of interpretation, and I say over and over, the doctrine of Christ is the most important thing in your life.
If you believe Jesus, and you take Him to be your example, you're going to be fine.
The cross, the doctrine, the example of Christ.
But we have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty.
Not walking in craftiness, Now let's have a little help here from Brother Matthew Henry, and let's see what our good Puritan brother had to say about this.
commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Now let's have a little help here from Brother Matthew Henry, and let's see what our good Puritan brother had to say about this.
He says this, Nor did they, in their preaching, handle the word of God deceitfully.
But as he said before, they use great plainness of speech.
You know, people might not like what I say, but I want everyone to understand me.
I want it to be plain, and I think we do a pretty good job on FOJC here, spelling out just what we believe.
We make it plain, we give it straight, And we don't, you know, have no fancy stuff up in here.
If we needed fancy stuff, me and Brian would be in a hard way to go.
It says, "...and did not make their ministry serve a turn or truckle to base designs." We do not cave in on what we believe to cater to any group or any individual.
It says, They had not cheated the people with falsehood instead of truth.
Some think the apostle alludes to the deceit which treacherous gamesters use.
Or that of hucksters in the market who mix bad wares with the good.
And this was actually used of wine sellers that would take wine and they would mix it with water or with anything that you would mix and dilute stuff.
The Word of God is not to be diluted.
It's not to be mixed with the things of the oral Torah.
or the Kabbalah, or any of the traditions of men.
It is to be totally the Law and the Gospel, the whole Bible, bringing forth treasures of the true scribe of the kingdom.
You're going to bring forth things out of your storehouse, old and new, both Law and Gospel, and we will see people changed by the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ.
And that's what it's all about.
Let's go to the Gospel of Luke. .
The Gospel of Luke, the 14th chapter.
The Gospel of Luke, chapter 14, and I want to read verses 34 and 35.
Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his savor...
Wherewith shall it be seasoned?
It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out.
He that hath an ear, let him hear.
Now, as all of you gardeners know, and almost everybody knows and understands, even manure is very valuable.
Manure can be used to help the land, and it's great fertilizer.
Yes, it is.
We know that.
So there's a great use for that.
And here he's saying, Jesus is saying, you know, Salt that has lost its savor, and this is a specific example.
Pliny the Elder talked about that.
There's a lot of salt there by the Red Sea, and when the salt went bad, it wasn't good for anything.
And that's what's saying, you know, even defecation of animals has a use for it, but salt's not.
It's more worthless than human refuse, or animal refuse.
Really, Jesus is going all the way to show what worthless salt is, and why every attempt should be made on our part not to be worthless salt.
I want to read a comment here by William Barclay.
It says, The Christian must be such that in his presence no doubtful language will be used, no questionable stories told, no dishonorable action suggested.
He must be like a cleansing antiseptic in the circle in which he moves.
Cleansing antiseptic.
Salt.
Food without salt can be revoltingly insipid.
The Christian, then, must be the man who brings flavor into life.
I tell you what, Jesus will give you a reason to live, and I guarantee you, our life for Jesus has not been boring.
And Sister Donna could tell you that.
We have a very exciting life.
It's exciting serving Jesus.
It's great serving Jesus.
And if you want a reason to live, you just serve Jesus.
And He will put some flavor in your life.
He will give you a reason to live, And he will hook you up with some other very flavorful people.
Yes, he will.
He goes on to say, the Christian must be such that he makes it easier for people to be good and harder to be bad.
I've had so many people tell me about multiple individuals that they act one way around me.
And they act another way around other people.
That's just being real here.
Just being real.
The Christian must be such that he makes it easier for people to be good and harder to be bad.
We all know people in whose company there are certain things we would not and could not do.
And equally, we all know people in whose company we might well stoop to things Which by ourselves we would not do.
This is a good way to judge the people that you let in your life.
Are the people in your life tending to, when you get around them, are you going to be lifted up with the truth of Jesus?
Or are they going to compromise your standards and drag you down in ungodliness?
This is the way that salt loses its savor.
We need to be antiseptic.
That don't mean we're holier-than-thou Pharisees, but that means that we are salt.
That we are salt, and we don't want to lose our savor.
No, we do not.
I just want to add something real quick, David.
You know, sea salt is a good thing for like, it has excellent source.
I think it's sodium and potassium.
And that's, I think it's a key ingredient for like maintaining normal heartbeat, enhancing cardiovascular health.
And like what we're talking about tonight, what you're bringing, the word of God.
It was good for the soul, the body, all the above.
And it's, it's really good for the heart.
You know, you, you meditate on it and you pray and the Lord changes your heart.
You become a new man, new woman, you know, you put away the old, old man, old woman, you know, you, you have a rejuvenation and I just want to kind of throw it out there for the whole sea salt comparison.
But then the, we are the salt of the earth, you know, and it's, uh, just want to throw it in there, David.
Yeah.
And I ought to be for, good for your heart, you know?
I ought to be a blessing to you, and to everyone that the Lord puts in my life, to be, do everything I can to be a blessing to you, and to, to lift us all up, to be closer to Christ, not to be the other way around.
Well, in some of these doctrines, some of these doctrines, like you mentioned earlier, preterism, and then, hey, I'm going to throw this out here.
I think the one of the programs we did on the hard scenes of Jesus, we referred to the Mandela effect.
Everybody's been giving us a hard time on that.
And I will say this comment, what I've made up in the South here, Mandela will make you yella.
Mandela will make you yella.
So, but on a serious note though, the preterism and dispensationalism and, you know, the whole rapture narrative,
I mean we're not we're not gonna you know bash people but we've known people that have sat down with us called us this thing or this and they say that they like you mentioned earlier they'll act like one way and then they'll turn around and do the totally opposite and not to be pointing fingers or anything but it just it break it it's heartbreaking it really is heartbreaking
They will sit and break bread, speak the gospel, read it, attain it, and then they'll do a full 720 and revert back to something they never even believed in.
And I think the tools of the devil, the devil has really been running rampant here lately and putting a lot of division and nonsensical mindset in some people.
I don't understand that, David.
What do you have to say about that?
Because these teachings, this theology, it can really be damning.
I hate to use that term.
I don't cuss, but it can be damning to the soul, David, these things.
Well, the devil's goal is to make each and every one of us worthless salt.
And also, this very saying, it goes against this idea And we're going to see this in some of these other salt sayings that you can lose your salt.
And the Bible says if you lose your salt, you're not good for anything.
You know, you're worse than manure.
You're worthless.
And that's a very serious statement.
We need to really meditate on what worthless salt really is.
And it's a, it's a very, very serious thing.
Very serious thing.
Now let's look at Mark.
The Gospel of Mark chapter 9, and let's look at verse 49.
For everyone shall be salted with fire.
Did you all know you're going to be salted with fire?
Yeah, that's right.
Everybody is going to be salted with fire.
There's no escaping this.
And he goes on to say, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Everyone shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Let's unpack that.
Let's bring a little something out of our... You see, and you can't understand, the doctrine of Christ is the ultimate revelation of truth And all, everything Jesus said right here, He's referring us back to the Old Testament.
And we're going to see just what Jesus meant, that you've got to bring things out of your storehouse old and new to understand it.
Every sacrifice sacrificed with salt.
In the book of Leviticus, in Leviticus chapter 2 and verse 13, Did you realize that?
Were you aware of that?
Did you realize that?
Were you aware of that?
And that's what Jesus meant, that every sacrifice, you know, just how I put it, every sacrifice shall be salted with salt, and we're all going to be salted with fire.
Every sacrifice under the Levitical system had to have salt with it.
It's a covenant of salt, because God's covenant is pure.
It'll sting sometimes.
Oh yeah, it'll sting.
But it's pure, and it will preserve you.
God's covenant isn't something that's going to go rotten in a few years.
Or, you see, when God gives truth, it's not like it's going to pass away because it got rotten or is no longer of any value.
It's a covenant of salt.
Now, let's look again in Numbers, the book of Numbers, chapter 18 and verse 19.
All the heave offerings of the holy things which the children of Israel offer unto the Lord have I given thee and thy sons and thy daughters with thee by a statute for ever.
It is a covenant of salt for ever before the Lord unto thy seed.
Unto thee and unto thy seed with thee.
It's a covenant of salt and it's an eternal covenant and that's why Jesus said every one of us are going to be salted by fire because this covenant of salt is still in effect and we're going to see just exactly what it means for us to be salted with fire.
All of these offerings Had to be offered with salt.
Now that's something, if you think about it, all of the different offerings, every offering had to have salt with it.
That's the huge implication of this worthless salt, of this worthless salt statement by Christ.
Now, in 2 Chronicles, we're going to read chapter 13 and verse 5, and here again, Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David forever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?
We're in a covenant of salt with the Lord, and we're in a covenant of salt with one another.
It should be something that will purify and be long-lasting, a covenant that is between believers, and it is between us and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Now, what does it mean for every one of us to be salted with fire.
Now let's go to the book of Romans, and let's read the book of Romans, chapter 12, and we're going to read verse 1 and 2.
Romans chapter 12, verse 1, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice.
Now, those sacrifices that got sacrificed with salt under that first covenant, they didn't survive it, did they?
But we are to bring ourselves as a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Now, I want to read the comment of J. A. Beat on this text, and J. A. Beat said this.
He said, Our bodies have now the sacredness associated in the mind of a Jew with the animals laid on the brazen altar.
That's exactly what it is.
Under the first covenant, that animal, every sacrifice was offered with salt, It was laid on the altar.
Now we have the same relationship.
We are now the sacrifice, and we are laid upon the altar in exact proximity to the animal being laid on the brazen altar.
Now we're the animal being laid on the altar.
Our bodies have now the sacredness associated in the mind of a Jew with the animals laid on the brazen altar, living In contrast to the dead animal sacrifices, while our feet and lips can run and speak, we give them to God.
Amen?
While our feet and lips can run and speak, we give them to God.
I like that.
That they may run and speak for Him.
This presentation makes our bodies holy, as it did the sacrificial animals in Exodus 29, 37.
Henceforth, they exist only to work out His purposes.
We are now the sacrifice.
It is no more a lamb or a goat But it's us, folks.
It's us.
Let's look at the book of Philippians.
You know, and this kind of lays it out there, doesn't it?
And Paul said, this is your reasonable service.
And there's not a lot of people out there telling you in the church world that, man, you gotta lay it all on the altar, you know, you gotta lay it on there.
You know, and it goes on in verse 2, it says, Do not be conformed to this world.
In the book of Philippians chapter 4, Philippians chapter 4 and verse 18, the Scripture says, But I have And here was the Apostle Paul in prison in dire need,
and there were believers that helped and there were believers that helped him with his physical needs.
And Paul said, this is a sacrifice of a sweet savor.
Our giving and our helping for other people.
This is a part of our reasonable service.
And in Hebrews chapter 13, Hebrews chapter 13 and verse 15, By him, therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name, the fruit of our lips.
The sacrifice of praise.
In the book of 1 Peter, 1 Peter, the second chapter and the 15th verse.
And I think I need 2 Peter 2.15.
No.
Okay.
And, believe it or not, I have written down the wrong verse.
Can you believe it?
So I'll just have to say Okay, it's 1 Peter 2 and 5.
Here we go.
I got it.
Thank you, Lord.
But 1 Peter 2 and 5, ye also, as lively stones, you know, we're not a dead stone.
We're to be lively.
We're not the frozen chosen.
We are the priest of the Most High God, and when the Holy Ghost is in you, you'll have a little bit of life.
Ye also as lively stones are build up a spiritual house and holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
In the Old Testament, God's moral law hasn't changed.
What's changed is the priesthood.
The Levitical priests, they offered up the sacrifices under the law with salt, but now we are the sacrifice.
We are salted with fire, the fire of the Holy Ghost, and we are the ones that, from that point on, we're living sacrifice.
We offer the sacrifice of praise.
We are literally a sacrifice that lives to serve Him.
That is the understanding here of being salted with fire, and we're going to go a little bit deeper with that.
Now, Brother Beat referred to a scripture in the book of Exodus, and let's go to the book of Exodus chapter 29 and read the 37th verse.
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar and sanctify it.
And it shall be an altar most holy, whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
Now the altar of God in the tabernacle was holy, and if you touched it, every offering of the animals that was offered when it touched the altar, it was made holy.
In the same way, you and I, we are now the sacrifice, and when we can touch the altar, we are made holy.
That is what we need to find out.
Well, what in the world is our altar?
And our altar is Jesus Christ.
Now, I want to read something from a lady That was a, she had probably, she was the teacher in probably the most successful home Bible study ever.
And some of these bright lights today would come around and say, no, you, you, you, you can't do that, you're a woman.
Well I tell you what, the people she taught to were born again and saved.
Just as much, it's the powers in the gospel, and you ladies out there, you witness, you, you witness and speak up for Jesus, if you preach the gospel to someone, they get saved, it's the gospel saved them, and they'll be just as saved as if any man did it.
Now, that's just common sense.
But anyway, Phebe Palmer, some of the best ministers that were really men of God, they wanted to come and learn from this woman.
Because she was really gifted in imparting the second blessing, and the second blessing of sanctification and cleansing of the iniquity of the heart.
And she did it with this very concept, and the thing of the altar sanctifying the gift.
Let me read just a little bit of what she said.
This is from her book, The Way of Holiness, Notes by the Way.
And she said this, The altar, thus provided by the cojoint testimony of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is Christ.
Jesus is the altar.
He is the one.
When Jesus died upon the cross, he was the lamb that took away the sin of the world.
There was never any other sacrifice that will ever be needed to be made after that sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross.
He is our altar, and he put an end to ever another little animal having to die.
on that brazen altar.
She says, His sacrificial death and sufferings are the sinner's plea, the immutable promises of the Lord Jehovah, the ground of claim.
She says this, If under the old covenant it was ordained, Whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy, Her heart, in its confident exaltation, said, How much more shall the blood of Jesus, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
If in the tabernacle the animal that touched the altar was made holy, how much more When we touch our altar, the Lord Jesus Christ, and he was not just, well, I believe in Jesus.
I think he's up there somewhere.
No.
You're bringing yourself as a living sacrifice.
You're coming to lay yourself on the altar just like in the same understanding of that animal.
When that little animal got up on the altar, he gave it all.
He didn't do it the second time.
He gave it all right there, and that's the correlation.
If we will bring ourselves and touch the altar of Christ, boom!
That's the only question.
Are we willing to come and bring ourselves as a living sacrifice in the same correlation of those animals under the first covenant?
She goes on to say, It was thus, by laying all upon the altar.
I remember old preachers, Brian, they would say, come lay your all upon the altar.
I remember that.
I became a Christian in the early seventies, and I remember some preachers then that were older at that time, they would say, come, you got to lay your all upon your, all upon the altar.
You don't hear that on TBN.
I haven't heard that because I don't listen to TV anymore.
I give up.
It said, She by the most unequivocal scripture testimony laid herself under the most sacred obligation to believe that the sacrifice became holy and acceptable and virtually the Lord's property.
Can you believe?
Can you bring yourself to lay it all upon the altar and to believe that when you do, Boom!
God is going to do that work within you.
You're going to be His property.
He is going to do that supernatural work of cleansing.
If we can believe, and if we can have faith, and we can come with that commitment, we can have that cleansing power that only comes from the blood of the Lamb.
Let's look at the book of Psalms 118. 14.
Psalm 118, and let's look at verse 27.
Psalm 118, 27.
God is the Lord, amen, which hath shewed us light, Bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar.
Now, do you know why, under the first covenant, that they bound the sacrifice with cords to the horns of the altar?
Because I guarantee you, that little animal, when the fire come, he'd jump off.
He'd jump off in a hurry and he'd be running up the road fast as his little feet would take him.
We have to bind.
They had to bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar.
What did Jesus say?
Every one of us will be seasoned with, or tested with fire.
Let me read that again.
I want to get that exactly right.
In Mark 9 49, I don't want them to speak because this is so important.
Mark chapter 9 and verse 49, For everyone shall be salted with fire.
There's exactly the way it's said.
And we're salted with fire when we say, okay, I believe what the Bible says, I want to come and I want to bring my all to Jesus and I want to lay my all on the altar.
Well, I tell you what, so many times when the Word of God gets really hot, we'll jump off.
You know, we'll say, oh well, I believe in Jesus, yeah, and that's a good thing, but when the fire of God, when it comes to bring ourselves as a living sacrifice and to lay it all upon the altar, when the fire gets hot, most people will jump off.
That's why they bound The sacrifice to the horns of the altar under the first covenant, and it is only the cords of our love for Christ that will tie us there.
Nothing else but our love for Jesus and our desire to give everything for Him, that's when we will stay on that altar until the fire of the Holy Ghost does that deep work within our heart.
We have to stay on that altar to be salted with fire.
And to add to this, I would sum it up, Brother David, uh, key word here would be endure.
Am I correct on the endure?
Yes, sir.
And, you know, he's talking about the 70s, you know, men of old, you know, that sounds crazy, but the 70s wasn't that long ago.
No, I remember them well, my friend.
Yeah, but it seems like... I remember them well.
Time has escalated, and it seems, but 2024, you don't hear anybody talking about salted with fire.
You hear people say, well... Yeah.
You know, this is all the Holy Spirit's going to get to make comments like that.
Or they'll say, well, you can't obtain the Holy Spirit.
You haven't went through these certain levels of understanding.
And in my opinion, I think they're throwing a bunch of worthless salt around when they make those comments.
What do you say, David?
Well, and they're turning people into worthless salt.
You know, there's people, many, many teach that when you're born again, you get it all.
And you're forgiven of your sins, past, present, and future.
That'll put a lot of people into worthless salt.
And that preacher, he's worthless salt.
You know, when you cannot preach God's law, you're worthless salt.
And, um, that's just the way it is.
And, um, that's the sad but true case of the situation.
Yes, it is.
Now let's go back to the Gospel of Mark, back to the ninth chapter.
I want to read that one verse again, and then I want to read the verse after it.
Mark 9, 49, another one of the worthless salt sayings, and that's what I want everyone to do.
Anyone that listens to the Doctrine of Christ on Worthless Salt, it'll be in your mind and you'll never forget it.
Everything Jesus said is important and we need to meditate and dwell on, and that's what this series on the hard sayings of Jesus is all about.
We have to take these things and we need to really understand it and lift up everything Jesus said with all of our heart.
For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
Salt is good, but if the salt have lost his saltiness, wherewith will ye season it?
There's no bringing it back.
There's no bringing it back after you lose your saltiness.
Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.
Salty people We'll be at peace with one another.
And we all know, and every one of us, we have people in our lives we can't be at peace with.
And when you can't be at peace with someone, it's just nothing wrong with being separate from them.
In Romans chapter 12 and the 18th verse, the Scripture tells us, If possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Don't let it be on your part, But if that cannot be the case, and many times it just isn't, as we all know.
Now let's go to the Gospel of Luke, and let's go to the ninth chapter, and let's look at the 62nd verse, Luke chapter 9 and verse 62.
And the scripture says here, And Jesus said unto him, No man having put his hand to No man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of God.
Now this is another, we got some farming metaphors this evening, don't we?
Now what happens And back then, of course, they had their oxen, but let's just have a modern example.
What happens if you got your tiller, and you got your tiller going, and you're looking around, back behind you, and over to the side, when you come back around to look, you know, you're gonna be everywhere?
You know, and that's exactly what it's saying.
If you're working for the kingdom of God, and you don't focus, you look around, and you're not going to work straight, you're not going to dig a clean furrow, and you're not going to be fit for the kingdom.
And this is very, very much like the saying of worthless salt.
You'll become worthless salt.
And this is what happens when people need to realize that there is salvation And there is also sanctification.
There is the bringing of ourselves as a living sacrifice, that the Lord can do that deep work of us, that we can be totally committed and have the fire of the Holy Ghost to keep it burning.
We have the zeal and the fire of God burning in our hearts that will give us a zeal To serve Jesus Christ, because we love Him.
We love nothing more than to preach His Word and bring people to Him and study His Word.
That's what we love, and that's what we do.
Yeah, David, when you mentioned the farming, you know, you have the tiller, right?
So you're, you're trying to make a straight line.
So, you know, just kind of compare it to the narrow way, you know, the broaden the path, you get all, you know, you're getting all, you're swaying back and forth, left to right, up or down.
You can go either other direction.
The broadened path can take you in all kinds of different, uh, walks of life, right?
But if you're tilling the ground and you're wanting to, um, have herb bearing seed, you're literally planting out seed.
And you're wanting to survive because you want the herbarian seed to grow fruit, grow plants, food for consumption.
It's the same thing what we're talking about tonight when you're wanting to read the Word.
You're wanting to walk the narrow way and the food is the Word of God.
It's feeding your soul.
You're feeding yourself when you read and retain and walk that out instead of walking an evil, worthless, salt life.
And you're wanting to just kind of bend and say, well, I can go back to that and I can still go back to my crooked lane and straighten it back out outside later.
You know what I mean?
And I can just, I can plant a little seed here, a little evil seed here, but it'll be all right.
I can cover it back up.
God won't see.
I can just kind of kick it.
You know what I mean?
I can kind of kick it and cover up my sin.
That's not how, that's not how it goes.
That's not how it goes.
No, sir.
No, sir.
And, uh, that is so, so true.
Now in Revelation chapter 3 and verse 16, it says this, So then, because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
And I tell you what, if you get on the altar and you're salted with fire, you're going to get hot.
You're going to get hot.
And This verse here, it is really, when we look at the level of commitment that is presented as a proper relationship in modern churches, it's pretty much lukewarm is okay.
You know, it's okay to be lukewarm.
You can relax.
The Pre-Trib Rapture says, well, you're going to be taken out before the Tribulation.
Preterism says, don't worry about it, there ain't going to be a Great Tribulation.
You know, you're once saved, always saved, you're forgiven of your sins before you do it.
That ain't being salted with fire!
That's being put to sleep.
With spiritual novocaine.
You know, that's satanic antiseptic that will put you to sleep and dull your senses.
And I guarantee you, you get salted with fire, you're going to wake up in a hurry.
I tell you what, that little animal, they had to strap him down because he knew, you know, he knew they're going to jump off.
So that's the thing.
We have to allow God to do that work in us.
The fire of the Holy Ghost, we shall be baptized in Holy Ghost and fire, and we let that fire of God gladly do that work in us, and when we go through that, you're not going to be lukewarm.
And just like, there's comparisons here.
If you start plowing for the kingdom, and you get your little self looking each and every way, you're, you're, you're not going to be fit to do anything.
And if you're worthless salt, You know, you're not even as good as manure.
And if you're lukewarm, you're going to get spewed out.
And I just want to say something right now to the backslider.
Backsliding is a, a word that you don't hear much.
I remember sermons on backsliding.
You don't hear that anymore because a lot of people don't think you can backslide.
You know, no sin you ever do, it's forgiven before you do it, so how can you backslide?
And all of us, There's times when, when we're plowing, we start going the wrong way instead of the right way.
You can ask the Lord's forgiveness and you can get your plow back in the right furrow.
Yes, you can.
We've all had times when our saltiness has went the wrong direction.
You can pray and ask the Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you.
And to revive that flavor before you become worthless salt.
And you can repent of your lukewarmness and you can come and lay yourself upon the altar and be salted with fire and let the fire of the Holy Ghost set you on fire and you will no longer have to worry about being lukewarm anymore.
In the epistle of Paul to the Colossians.
Let's read Colossians chapter 4 and verse 6.
Colossians chapter 4 and verse 6.
Let your speech be always with grace seasoned with salt.
That ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Grace seasoned with salt.
Let me read what Linsky said about this.
This is C. H. Linsky's commentary.
I like what he had to say, so I'll share it with you.
And he says this, Salt is neither the wisdom nor the graciousness we are to use, It is the wholesomeness of what we say.
Foolish remarks, ungracious, surly, or cutting retorts, finally saltless talk that is vapid and from which the hearer's mind turns away because it is not worth considering, never do the Christian cause any good.
We apply the salt, and this is much like the saying, speaking the truth in love.
I like to speak the truth in love, and I like to get them both in there.
And it's got to come with a little salt.
It's got to come with a little salt.
Charles Finney said, it's no good to preach on sin unless you preach on the sin of the people you're looking at.
We have to throw the salt in there, but there always has to be the grace of the Gospel, and always things need to be said to people in a way that they understand that the grace of God is there.
To draw them closer to Him as they, they learn and grow that they can become salty and we can be salty little brothers and sisters in that covenant of salt instead of worthless salt.
Well, David, I think that, um, that's a fire broadcast tonight with a little salt on the side.
You know what I mean, David?
That was, uh, man, hard sayings of Jesus here tonight here with worthless salt.
And, uh, it really hits home, man.
When you start talking about farming and tilling the ground, that really does.
Yeah.
That example.
And I think we all know what worthless salt is.
We know what worthless salt is and we don't want to be that.
And we're not going to be that.
Absolutely.
One thing I want to add real quick, David, you know, it's worthless thought would be included when you start talking about You know, useless things, you know, when it comes to vanity or, you know, things that would make your brother or your sister stumble, you know, breaking the commandments kind of talk, you know, trash talk, you know, vulgar conversation that's worthless salt, you know what I mean?
Yes, it is.
It's just nasty, vile.
It's not good for anything to consume, you know?
You're not supposed to consume that type of vile stuff, and that's what's wrong with this world today.
People are justifying their sin.
They're not tilling the land.
Literally, figuratively or literally, they're not even tilling and they don't know how to do that.
And then that's why we do these programs, because a lot of people have lost their way.
They lost their Savior.
Well, they lost the Savior.
They don't even know the Savior.
Excuse me, I misspoke there, but they lost their season, their flavor, and their salt, and they have not figured out how to walk that narrow path.
And I think it's very dire that we get into the Word of God and really focus on those, you know, the parables of Jesus and actually understand what these words are saying, these precious words.
And that's why I like doing these hard sayings of Jesus programs with you, Brother David.
Well, thank you, Brian, so much.
I love and appreciate you more than you know, or maybe you do.
Maybe you do.
And you are loved.
And you all are all loved, too.
And pray for us that we can do our very best to lift up that bloodstained banner and proclaim the doctrine of Christ as the most important thing in everyone's life.
And you know, tonight I tell you what, we're in southern Indiana here and we're down by the river.
We got that Hoosier humidity going on.
It's hot!
It's summertime and we got the humidity going on.
I even got me a cold drink tonight instead of my coffee, and it's got to be hot to do that.
But the Lord's good.
And y'all know that.
And Brian, any final thoughts on the broadcast tonight?
It's just an honor to be part of it.
And even these verses that we went over tonight that you discussed in this program, it makes me... I have to reflect on myself and also go back and reference these verses for my own study to really... I'll have to go back and watch this one tonight, Brother Dave, because there's a lot of stuff to unpack on this hard sayings of Jesus.
Yes, sir.
Well, with that.
With thanks to Brian, to all of you that have been a part of this broadcast.
We love you.
With all of our heart, pray for us as we strive to lift up Jesus Christ and His words as the most important thing in all of our lives.
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